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You Won’t Be Able To Put This Book Down Because It’s Rigged To Explode
Looking for a great read? I highly recommend Dan Brown’s new thriller, The Incendiary Imperative. I couldn’t put it down. It’s got fast-paced action, surprising plot twists, and 50 grams of plastic explosives embedded in the spine.
You’ll be hooked from the beginning, when you open it up, hear a little “click,” and read the first sentence of the preface:
“READER, THIS BOOK IS NOW ARMED. YOU HAVE 24 HOURS TO FINISH IT. DO NOT STOP READING OR YOU WILL BE INSTANTLY BLOWN TO BITS.”
The book raises an intriguing dramatic question: Do you, the reader, die at the end? Will you even make it through the preface? Don’t think about that too long — the clock wired to the C-4 is ticking.
I was turning pages late into the night and well into the next day. I didn’t want to stop to sleep, eat, or go to the bathroom. If you lower your hands more than an inch, or turn the pages too abruptly, they’ll be picking you off your La-Z-Boy with tweezers.
The story is classic Brown: Robert Langdon must stop a shadowy villain from blowing up the Taj Mahal. But with The Incendiary Imperative, the writer moves beyond the conventions of the traditional action thriller and invents a new literary category: the immersive novel. Now you don’t just identify…
